Word: fightin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...because ah little tired. Ah sick, bored." London, for these island innocents, becomes the arena of a bitter struggle for survival. They face race discrimination, a housing shortage, a shortage of jobs. Before long, the air is heavy with bitterness. Says one Jamaican: "If ever there's any fightin' in our parts o' de world, we'd be nastier to the English than to any one, because we'd be remembering that for generations an' generations we'd been offerin' them a love they never even try to return." Author Lamming himself...
...without having learned to read a sentence. He got odd jobs as milkman, baker, house painter, hospital orderly. "Sometime I quit, sometimes they sacked me. I just couldn't get interested. I didn't care. An' I was always gettin' into mischief, always fightin' or breakin' windows, an' then boozin' and gettin' into trouble with the police. I was a sort of spiv all right...
Mississippi Gambler has plenty of feudin' and fightin' with pistols, swords and fists. The men are brave and handsome, and the women good and beautiful. Evil is punished and right rewarded. With a rambling the script and lackadaisical direction, the picture, like Ol' Man River, just keeps rolling along to its predictable Technicolored happy ending...
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